Abstract
Following the assumption that the motivation to participate in a rehabilitation program is a multidimensional construct we surveyed experts to develop a first version of the patient questionnaire of rehabilitation motivation (PAREMO). In this article we describe the results of the pilot study with regard to the test-theoretical analysis of the questionnaire. Patients of cardiologic, orthopaedic and psychosomatic rehabilitation clinics were participants of this study. After several subsequent steps of analysis the PAREMO was reduced from an initial 150 items to 46 items. The questionnaire now contains a structure of six factors: 1. need for assistance and psychological burden of suffering, 2. restrictions in everyday life because of physical burden of suffering, 3. reactions of significant others to the illness, 4. readiness to change in terms of preventive behaviour, 5. hopelessness and scepticism, and 6. initiative and knowledge. These factors explain almost 50% of the total variance. Cronbach's Alphas range between 0.71 and 0.91 for the subscales, the corrected item total correlation means range between 0.45 and 0.65. The statistical results as well as the naming of the scales are preliminary to this date, they are being reanalysed in another study.
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